St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-11-19

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beyond parallel Beside the English
speaking nations including Australia
and New Zealand, the sermons are regu-
larly translated into the languages OF
Germany, France, Italy, Denmark, Nor
way, Russia and India. The gentlemen
having in charge the publication of these
sermons inform Us that in this country
every week, thirteen million six hundred
thousand copies of the entire sermon are
printed, and about four million in other
lands, making over seventeen million per
week 4 similar arrangement is now be-
ing made for the publication of DR.. Tai
IMAGES Friday evening talks.
The subject Of the sermon to-day was
'Parental Blunders," and the text was
I Samuel iv, IS: He fell from off the
seat backward by the side of the gate,
and his neck brake, and he died for he
was an old man, and heavy" DR.. Tai
mage said:
This is the end of long story of par
entail neglect. Judge Eli was a good
man, but he let his two boys-Hophni
and Phinehas-do as they pleased, and
through over-indulgcnce they went to
ruin The blind old judge, ninety-cight
years of age, is seated at the gate wait
ing for the news of an important battle
in which his two sons were at the front.
An express is coming with tidings from
the battle This blind nOnagenarian
puts his hand behind his ear and listens,
and cries what meaneth the noise Of
this tumult?" An excited messenger,
all out of breath with the speed, said to
him: Our army is defeated. The
sacred chest, called the ark, is captured,
and your sons are dead on the field" No
wonder the father tainted and expired.
The domestic tragedy in which these two
sons were the tragedians had finished its
fifth and last act. He fell from off the
seat backward by the side of the gate,
and his neck brake, and he died. for he
was an old man, and heavy"
Eli had made an awful mistake in re-
gard to his children. The Bible dis
tinctly says "His sons made themselves
vile and he restrained them not Oh,
the ten thousand mistakes in rearing
children, mistakes of parents, mistakes
of teachers in day school and Sabbath
classes, mistakes which we all make
Will it not be useful to consider them
This country is going to be conquered
by great army, compared with which
that of Baldwin the First, and Nerxes.
and Alexander, and Grant, and Lee, all
put together, were in numbers insigniti-
cant. They will capture all our pulpits,
storehouses, factories, and halls of legis-
lation, all our shipping, all our wealth,
and all our honors. They will take
possession of all authority, from the
United States presidency down to the
humblest cOnstabulary-of everything
between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans
They are on the march now, and they
halt neither day nor night They will
soon be here, and all the present active
population of this country must sur
render and give way. l refer to rle
great army of children. Whether they
shall take possession of everything for
good or for bad, depends upon the style
OF preparation through which they
pass on their way from cradle to
throne. Cicero acknowledges he kept
in his desk collection of prefaces
for books, which prefaces he could
at any time attach to anything he wanted
to publish for himself or others; and all
parents and teachers have all prepared
the preface of every young life under
their charge, and not only the preface,
but the appendix, whether the volume be
poem or a farce. Families, and schools,
md legislatures are in our day busily en-
gagged in discussing what is the best mode
of educating children. Before this ques-
ion almost every other dwindles into in
Significance, while dependent upon its
proper solution is the welfare of
The governments and ages eternal.
+a1t IS h. -
Frederick the Second made against
day she appeared before the august Diet
held up in her arms before them her
upon the officers and deputies of the
people that with half-drawn swords they
broke forth in the war-crv: "Let US die
for our Queen, Maria Theresa So,
this morning, realizing that the boy of
to-day is to be the ruler of the future,
the popular sovereign, | hold him before
the American people to arouse their en-
thusiasm in his behalf, and to evoke
their oath for his defense, his education,
and his sublime destiny.
If parent, you will remember when
you were aroused to these great respon-
SAc1A''ASo, "AAu "iiSh YOU lOuuu tlldL you !
had not done all required after you had |
admired the tiny hands, and the glossy
hair, and the bright eyes that lay in the |
cradle. You suddenly remembered that
that hand would yet be raised to bless
the world with its benediction, or to
smite it with curse. In Ariosto's great
poem there is character called Ruggiero
who has shield of insufferable splendor,
but it is kept yelled, save on certain
occasions, and when uncovered it
startled and overwhelmed it's beholder
who before had no suspicion of its
brightness. My hope to-day is to un-
cover the destiny of your child or
student, about which you may have no
especial appreciation, and flash upon
you the splendors of it's immortal ma
ture. Behold the shield and the sword
of it's coming conflict!
propose in this discourse to set forth
what consider to be some of the errors
prevalent in the training of children.
First: i mark that many err in too
great severity or too great leniency of
family government. Between parental !
tyranny and ruinous laxativeness of dis
cipline there is medium. Sometimes
the father errs on one side, and the
mother on the other side. Good family
government is all important. Anarchy